Chapel Hill is one of the best college towns and best places to live in the United States, with diverse social, cultural, recreational and professional opportunities that extend across the campus and community.

University employees can choose from a wide range of Vocational training opportunities For career growth, skills development, lifelong learning and enjoyment Exclusive privileges For numerous retail, dining and performing arts discounts, savings at local child care centers and special rates at select campus events. United Nations Command-Chapel Hill offers full-time employees a Comprehensive benefits packagePaid time off and a variety of health, life and retirement plans and additional programs that support a healthy work-life balance.

Department of Biology in United Nations Command-Chapel Hill is dedicated to the discovery and dissemination of new and current knowledge in the broad field of biology by maintaining a high-quality faculty that integrates cutting-edge research and student-centered teaching.

We are one of the largest academic departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. We have more than 3,450 majors and enroll undergraduate students in more than 7,870 seats in our classes each semester. Each fall or spring semester, we offer 52 classes (70 sections) and 13 laboratory courses (93 sections). Our average total annual spending exceeds $24 million, with approximately half of that amount coming from grant-sponsored research. Our department has nearly $70 million in active grants to support our dual missions of research and teaching. Our large research base covers many areas of biology and supports many outstanding postgraduate programmes. We are composed of 48 tenure-track faculty, 11 faculty members, 5 research faculty, and numerous adjunct and emeritus faculty who are involved in core and interdisciplinary research and teaching, both within the department and between other departments and schools at the university. United Nations Command.

We currently have 50 graduate students and 30 postdoctoral students, and we employ approximately 85 additional graduate and undergraduate students from across the university to assist in our teaching and research missions. Furthermore, we are supported by an administrative staff of 20 people, with an additional 20 staff who directly support research.

Department of Biology in United Nations Command Chapel Hill will be hiring for a tenure-track position in organismal biology at the assistant professor level.

The assistant professor studies resilience using the organism as the focal unit of investigation using an integrative approach. Potential research topics include (but are not limited to): How organisms resist or recover from environmental stress or disturbances; Plasticity mechanisms. The role of behavior in enhancing resilience; Scale effects of organismal resilience across levels of biological organization; The role that interactions between species play in resilience; How resilience mechanisms enable organisms, populations and communities to respond adaptively to human-induced changes; How resilience mechanisms evolve and how they influence development. Studies on living organisms may include animals, plants, and microbes.

The assistant professor teaches one course each semester. They are responsible for building and maintaining an active research portfolio and securing funding from various external sponsors. They will actively participate in the scientific community (internal and external). United Nations Command-CH and engage in service activities that advance the Foundation’s work and its role in supporting North Carolina.

Preference will be given to candidates whose work is complementary United Nations Command– CH’s strengths are in ecology, evolution, and organismal biology.

In addition to creativity and excellence in research, successful candidates must demonstrate a desire to teach undergraduate and graduate students as well as a commitment to academic excellence and support of the shared missions of the department, college, and university.